The passion of Flamenco blends with the elegance of courtly dances in the most popular guitar concerto of all time: Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. The work was composed in Paris in 1939 during a ...

For a work as seemingly Spanish as Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, it initially seems bizarre that many people’s first encounter with it is forever linked to the fictional Yorkshire town of Grimley.

Written by Joaquin Rodrigo in 1939, the Concierto de Aranjuez is a guitar classic. He wrote it amid the chaos of the Spanish Civil War, and in circumstances of poverty and personal tragedy. How has it ...

Pablo Picasso's 'Guernica' (1937) visually describes the carnage and morose nature of war, but what was the inspiration for Joaquin Rodrigo's most famous guitar concerto? It had been conjectured that ...

Music by Ricardo Gallen on this Saturday's Fretworks. For the next Fretworks program Saturday evening at 7, I’ll have this relatively unfamiliar concerto for guitar and orchestra by Rodrigo with ...

Virtually blind by then, Joaquin Rodrigo could not believe that the Chinese girl who had just made her Madrid debut with his "Invocacion y danza" was aged just 14 at the time. And no wonder: now fully ...

If the guitar is at the very heart of rock and pop, the same cannot be said of classical music. Of course, in its earliest forms, there was plenty for a plucked stringed instrument to play. The lute - ...

Hovhaness's Symphony No. 2, Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, and Sibelius's Symphony No. 5 This week on The Phoenix Symphony broadcast, special guest Pablo Sainz Villegas joins us on guitar for ...

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Buffalo Philharmonic conductor JoAnn Falletta began her musical career as a classical guitarist. Now, she has her own guitar competition that bears her name — the JoAnn Falletta International Guitar ...

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